Senior AI Platform Engineer — Equity & Unlimited PTO

Motion Recruitment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and holidays

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Software Engineer for a technology company in New York focused on AI-driven scientific research. You will build the core software powering an AI platform and autonomous laboratory systems, spanning backend services, data pipelines, and production infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate across software, robotics, machine learning, and experimental automation, embracing ownership and a learning mindset to deliver reliable systems in a demanding environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production software end-to-end.
• Experience with Python, Go, or Rust for backend development.
• Familiarity with concurrent and asynchronous programming and event-driven systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems, timeouts, retries, and production debugging.
• Experience designing or operating fault-tolerant systems with idempotency and safe rollback.
• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering judgment and emphasis on maintainability and clear interfaces.
• High ownership and proactive problem-solving mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build agent capabilities and tools, including API integrations and workflow automation.
• Develop scientific workflow orchestration for processes like Bayesian optimization and long-running jobs.
• Implement retries, idempotency, and safeguards for fragile workflows.
• Build pipelines to ingest, store, and transform data for models and LLMs.
• Create internal developer platforms, tooling, SDKs, shared services, and templates.
• Develop observability and reliability systems with logs, metrics, tracing, and debugging workflows.
• Support hybrid infrastructure across cloud and on-prem, including IaC and containerization.
• Collaborate with software, robotics, ML, and automation teams to run production systems.

Skills

Python/Go/Rust

Distributed systems

Concurrency/async programming

Kubernetes

Production debugging

Code quality/interfaces

Ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

LangChain

PydanticAI

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Software Engineer for a technology company in New York focused on AI-driven scientific research. You will build the core software powering an AI platform and autonomous laboratory systems, spanning backend services, data pipelines, and production infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate across software, robotics, machine learning, and experimental automation, embracing ownership and a learning mindset to deliver reliable systems in a demanding environment.